We report 2 cases of teenagers who were poisoned with Jimson weed (Datura stramonium) and presented to the emergency department with a severe acute anticholinergic toxidrome after ingestion of several hundred seeds. The patients presented with visual hallucinations, disorientation, incomprehensible and nonsensical speech, and dilated sluggish pupils. Both patients required restraints for combat...

hallucinations is unusual for intoxication with atropine or scopolamine, but could be explained by delayed digestion of non-ground Jimson weed seeds. Postprandial ‘inability to vomit’, followed by unconsciousness and auditory hallucinations, as reported by this patient, clearly is consistent with tropane alkaloid poisoning, and, together with laboratory results (50 seeds D. stramonium/kg of gra...

Jimson weed, a plant best known among adolescents and young adults for its hallucinogenic properties, grows as a wild herb in the United States. Ingestion of jimson weed produces the toxidrome of anticholinergic intoxication. Understanding and recognizing the classic signs and symptoms of anticholinergic intoxication can help clinicians evaluate persons presenting with jimson weed poisoning. In...

The host suitability to Ditylenchus destructor of seven common weed species in peanut (Arachis hypogaea) fields in South Africa was determined. Based on the number of nematodes per root unit, white goosefoot (Chenopodium album), feathertop chloris (Chloris virgata), purple nutsedge (Cyperus rotundus), jimson weed (Datura stramonium), goose grass (Eleusine indica), khaki weed (Tagetes minuta), a...

Doctor Soneral is a resident physician with the University of Wisconsin-Madison, Department of Family Medicine. Doctor Connor is in Pediatric Critical Care Medicine at St Mary’s Hospital Medical Center, Madison, Wis. Please address correspondence to: Steven N. Soneral, DO, Department of Family Medicine, 777 S Mills St, Madison, WI 53715-1896; phone 608.263.4550; fax 608.263.5813; e-mail ssonera...

abstract use of empirical competition models is one of approaches in integrated weed management strategies. in order to investigation of this approach in simulation of yield loss of bean (phaseolus vulgari. l.) caused by jimson weed (datura stramonium l.) interference, an experiment was conducted in national bean research station, in khomein, in 2007. the experiment design was randomized comple...

jimsonweed (datura stramonium l.) is an important weed in bean fields in iran. in order to investigate the effect of density and relative time of emergence of jimsonweed on yield and yield components of chitti bean, a field study based on factorial experiment was conducted at farm bean research national station in khomein in 2006. treatments were chosen to provide four different weed densities ...

INTRODUCTION A medical visit for plant ingestion is rare in the pediatric emergency services but may involve a high toxicity. The botanical toxicology training of health staff is often very limited, and it can be difficult to make a diagnosis or decide on the appropriate treatment. OBJECTIVE To study the epidemiological and clinical characteristics of poisoning due to plant ingestion in order...